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[9musesandanoldmind]

Artemis rescues Iphigenia.

I’ve decided to finally follow my wish of making a series of mythical women with more of a Bronze Age aesthetic than classical greek. So here it is. =B

Check Medusa too.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

meeting odysseus was probably the best day of nausicaa’s life tbh like she grows up hearing songs of war hero celebrity odysseus sung in her court and then meets him irl helpless and sopping wet and he tells her she looks like a goddess. it’s straight out of a self insert teenage girl fanfiction like u know she would have loved blogging on tumblr about this this

[strangestcase]

Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.

[bleu-guacamole]

This reminds me of the blood river in Antarctica. For like a century scientists had no clue why this river looked like, acted like, and felt exactly like blood. Turns out it’s just really high in iron.

[the-sassy-composer]

"Blood River in Antartica" yeah right there's no way a river looks like bl-

...nevermind

[wigmund]

Blood Falls isn't just high in iron, it's the byproducts of extremophile bacteria that have been isolated under a glacier in a iron- and sulfur-rich anoxic brine for the past 5 million years.

[mortalityplays]

btw you will miss this in 5 or 10 years. memory will smooth these circumstances down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a shade of light or a moment of this particular innocence. you don't know about what happens next, and one day that will be the most alluring thing of all. don't leave it all for nostalgia. have a nice night now, whatever night it happens to be.

[francislangdon]

still laughing at al hashimi being really cool that langdon was addicted to benzos but then acting like he killed someone when she was told he was getting his benzos from the benzo factory he works at. like okay mama let’s use our critical thinking skills

[berrycobbler]

it's so hardcover –> we're so paperback

[librarylurker]

this post is making me pronounce hardcover in a way i never considered

[cassassinated]

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

[mythicalwashrag]

[useful-info-haver]

If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)

[nyxgoddessofcandles]

There's more to do actually, now

go to About:config find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999 find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999

additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm

also in about:config, find: media.encoder.webm.enabled media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled media.webm.enabled and toggle them all to false

note! this will limit video to 1080p

and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP Fuck Google

[vortex-vt]

We jailbreaking browsers now lmao

[petrykora]

Meadow in the morning ☘️

Today I had to be at work at 6 am. When I arrived at my bus stop, this beautiful sunrise landing on the meadow delighted my eyes. Sometimes I really want to live a little longer.

[smallwhiterat]

Illuminated Internet (2024-2025)

[japril]

-You're here! -In the flesh.

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"I can note your interest in that feature for future development."

[irate-iguana]

I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article I’m currently reading just described the Byzantine era as “a period relatively modern.”

[mockiatoh]

Stop that’s too funny

[a-mythologynerd]

After I send any email I put my hands on my hips, lean over at the waist, and make a loud vomiting noise.

I’m not actually vomiting. It’s just an honest assessment of my communication skills.

[a-mythologynerd]

I just think it's interesting that Darlington compares Alex to Undine. A water nymph to not have a soul but gains one by marrying a human and leaving her domain to live with one. Alex, who can carry souls inside her. Which could mean nothing

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

[adelepocketbook]

just finished my reread of ninth house. a while back, someone posted about their frustration/disappointment with bardugo's decision to go with the christian concept of hell and punishment in HB, when NH made it seem like the concept of an afterlife would be much more interesting as its ending promises we'll see.

towards the end, I was reminded from one of those lil excerpts bardugo puts in before most chapters that Lethe scholars have theorized that many forms of the afterlife exist all at once, and therefore, many versions of hell probably do as well. Here's to hoping that we get to explore that a lot more in DB soon, bc HB was sort of a letdown in that aspect particularly. (honestly I don't remember much from HB bc it's been a few years since I read it but maybe they go into it a bit more than I can recall atm.)

NH mentions convergent rivers, broken rivers, and bodies of water so much, and yet we never see alex by a lake or anything until she cleanses her hellie-self after murdering len + crew back near Ground Zero in LA, a bustling place brimming with personality, versus New Haven, which NH characters are constantly describing as dead-and-undead. "This town." y'know, the one that was deliberately built between 2 rivers? does HB address this? It's next on the reread list obvi, but the brief mention of the broken rivers in LA that alex symbolically bathes in to cleanse herself of the death scene she's part of is very important to me and you better believe i'll be looking out for some sort of discussion surrounding river cities during my HB reread or DB.

is it relevant to the christian concept of baptism and rebirth? yes. do I think it's a fair critique to say that that symbolism oversaturates plenty of fantasy literature already? of course. am I going to eat it up every time, considering alex's literal rebirth after consensually dying in order to meet the bridegroom in NH via the drowning ritual that takes her to the Egyptian afterlife, and especially considering my own complicated relationship to the christian faith and its practices? you betcha.

anyhoo. I'm still hyped asf for DB. darlingstern, you'd better be waiting in full swing hehehehehe

[a-mythologynerd]

Great points about waterways. It definitely also reminds me of how Darlington compares Alex to an Undine figure. Considering how the most famous Undine story talks about how she comes from the water but cannot live in the other world long as she lacks a human soul and must marry a human to obtain one and then there’s a lot of grief and tragedy, I’m really hoping we get some more parallels and tie ins with the DB plot and Alex as this “empty vessel” that can hold souls.

[nyacromancey]

no but what if magic was something disgusting and perverse and uncanny and it’s used in all of these horrific depictions of every kind of violence and manipulation and cruelty and you want to experience it anyway because it’s magic